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An information day aimed at helping the public avoid being swindled by callous crooks was held in Castle Douglas on Monday.

Happy Valley's James Norton is starring in new Netflix IVF drama 'JOY', which tells the true story of Louise Joy Brown, the first person born through In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in Oldham.

Residents will have fond memories of Queen Elizabeth visiting West Dunbartonshire on numerous occasions during her 70-year reign.

Police are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a man who was last spotted in the early hours of this morning. John Brown was seen around 4.30am on Thursday, August 25 on Sunnyside Road walking towards the Shortlees Road bus terminal in Kilmarnock.

IndieWire.Hawke noted that he feels that he’s “definitely made the turn from being an old young person to being a young old person.”“I prefer this. I feel like playing John Brown in ‘The Good Lord Bird’ was that for me: the beginning of my ‘old man’ career, the beginning of my last act,” the father of four went on.Hawke starred in, created and produced the 2020 Showtime miniseries about Brown, a slavery abolitionist in the 1850s.He continued: “But it’s the beginning of it, you know? I definitely find myself looking over a filmography and thinking about which ones I could’ve cut out, because I only have so much time left.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterEthan Hawke will star in and executive produce a limited series currently in development at Showtime, Variety has confirmed.The series is titled “The Whites” and is based on the novel of the same name by Richard Price. It begins with the idea that every detective is haunted by their White Whale, the perpetrator who got away because the justice system failed. Billy Graves (Hawke), once a rising star in his department and former member of a group of well-respected cops called the “Wild Geese,” walks away from NYPD Homicide and joins the Nightwatch division, where his cases end when he clocks out— but his past comes calling when a seemingly straightforward murder case involving a White Whale unfolds, threatening his career, enduring friendships, and family.

Edinburgh's Royal Yacht Britannia features in the new Downton Abbey film.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargePlaying John Brown in Showtime’s limited series “The Good Lord Bird” required an intensity from star and executive producer Ethan Hawke that pushed him to his limits. “It was the first time I knew what having a heart attack might feel like,” Hawke told Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Lord Bird, the Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke in the adaptation of James McBride’s book about enigmatic abolitionist John Brown, will be awarded a Peabody on Tuesday, Deadline has learned.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVFor their first outings as television creators, Ethan Hawke and Little Marvin held nothing back.Hawke acquired the rights to James McBride’s novel “The Good Lord Bird” for the Showtime adaptation. He also wrote scripts, executive produced and starred as abolitionist John Brown, approaching history with a witty bent.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaEthan Hawke has joined the cast of Scott Derrickson’s “The Black Phone,” the big screen adaptation of a short story by Joe Hill.It reunites Hawke with Blumhouse. The Oscar-nominee previously starred in “The Purge,” and appeared as abolitionist John Brown in Showtime’s “The Good Lord Bird,” both of which the company produced.

Also on this day: President James Monroe outlines his doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere. Militant abolitionist John Brown is hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry the previous October. Artist Georges-Pierre Seurat is born in Paris.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFor Ethan Hawke’s “The Good Lord Bird,” the crew was asked to create a dusty rural environment to simulate the world of 1850s Kansas, in which abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) proposes the armed overthrow of slavery.

ORIGINAL SERIESTHE GOOD LORD BIRDLimited Series Premiere Sunday, Oct. 4, at 9 p.m.

2013 novel of the same name — “The Good Lord Bird” follows newly freed young slave Henry, nicknamed “Onion” (Joshua Caleb Johnson), who ends up with famous abolitionist John Brown (Hawke) and his band of soldiers on a crusade to end slavery. It culminates in the 1859 raid on the Army depot at Harpers Ferry, Va.

The Good Lord Bird — Showtime's adaptation of James McBride's National Book Award-winning historical novel written, produced by, and starring Ethan Hawke as legendary abolitionist John Brown — premieres Oct. 4, and TV Guide has an exclusive look at the new trailer for the highly anticipated limited series. John Brown was a white man who fought against slavery in antebellum America — literally.

Ritchie Maxwell, who has recently added Billy Bentley and John Brown to his backroom team, said: “It’s a new team for us as they are coming in from the juniors and hopefully we will be able to get someone to watch them if everything goes to plan.“It’s a massive cup, it’s probably the biggest non-league cup in Scotland now with 142 teams now that the junior teams have been added.”

NEW YORK -- Ethan Hawke has portrayed several real people in recent years, including musician Chet Baker and abolitionist John Brown, but his new role as pioneering inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla presented the challenge of playing a genius. In the new independent film “Tesla” by writer-director Michael Almereyda, Hawke shines light on the Serbian immigrant’s many theories and inventions.

Good Lord, Ethan Hawke has gone mad.

By Anthony D'Alessandro

The cast and producers of The Good Lord Bird, the upcoming Showtime limited series executive-produced by and starring Ethan Hawke as the abolitionist John Brown, appeared at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday to preview the antebellum dramedy. The series was originally scheduled to premiere in February, but has been pushed back to a later date to be determined.